Dave Thorley

Hi All www.topdogrecords.co.uk Another busy week on the site, lots of new stuff, nice 45's northern, modern, funk and boogie. Cool, hard to find LP's and some great CD's including elusive Southern Soul. Lots of sound files. We now have over 11,000 titles in stock, have a good old mooch, you never know what you may find below is just a small selection of what can be found................ 45's - Dena Barnes, Papa Bear & The Cubs, Little Samson, Willie Darrington, Tolbert Family Singers featuring OC Tolbert, Marcelle Joesph, Charles Johnson, Ron Patterson and so many moreLP's - Intruders (Gamble), Halloween, Gladys Knight (Little Knight Music), Glenn jones (Everybody Love A Winner), Gil Scott Heron/Brian Jackson, GC CameronCD's - Masters Of Time, Monique Ford, Nee Nee Gwynn, ML, O.C. Buchana, Nikko, Maurice J. Plus don't forget the great additions from early in the week.......... Mae Young - Lets give our love a try - Big Mack ( uptempo in ya face Detroit 60's dancer) Prince Geno and the Tailormades - Brand new man with the master plan - Aladdin (Indemand Washington, D.C. cool croosover shuffler) Alvarez - Sooner or later - Polydor (Jesus Alvarez on this cool 70's modern soul midtempo winner) Buddy Conner - When your alone - Breakthrough (Forget what those that don't have it say, only only version to have) George Smith - Don't find me guilty - Bojo (Sublime 60's crossover soul, oh so rare on this label, only a few copies ever turned up) San Remo Golden Strings - Festival time - Ric Tic (All time classic instrumental, here on a supa rare original styrene white demo) Pep Brown - It's all about the money - Walden (Oh so hard to find early 80's soulful modern shuffler) Royal Five - Say it to my face - Tyler (Philly 60's group soul at it's best) Sugar Bear Johnson - When your jones come down - T-Jaye (The mighty Ted Jarrett on production for this indemand funky midtempo modern soul winner) Eddie Carlton - Things are gonna get a little tougher - Bell Sound (Un-released studio disc of the crazy uptempo 60's dancer from the man, packed the floor every time back at The Ritz) Tate - It takes more love - Cloverstreet (One of two stunning soulful group tracks from them, both produced by the great Chester Pipkin) Vicki Williams - Do I make myself clear - Morgan Park (Rare on either label, but this was the first, Oh so soulful midtempo 60's Mississippi dancer) Mamie Lee - I can feel him slipping away - MGM (All time classic, so soulful midtempo 60's winner, here on a nice demo) Green Sisters - Whatevers fair - Mankind (The LP with the stunning uptempo track 'A theme for Sister Green') Gail Anderson - Be proud - Salvador (Midtempo 60's at it's best, and what a great voice) Hope you find something you like, and thanks for looking Dave & Malayka

Morning All Here a bunch of stuff we put up late yesterday Dave

Hi All www.topdogrecords.co.uk Another week another bunch of nice updates, shed load of 45's across the site, funk, northern and modern. plus some real nice LP's, Gonna beputting up some rare cd's later this week. But below is a sample of some of the things we have put up. Mae Young - Lets give our love a try - Big Mack ( uptempo in ya face Detroit 60's dancer) Prince Geno and the Tailormades - Brand new man with the master plan - Aladdin (Indemand Washington, D.C. cool croosover shuffler) Alvarez - Sooner or later - Polydor (Jesus Alvarez on this cool 70's modern soul midtempo winner) Buddy Conner - When your alone - Breakthrough (Forget what those that don't have it say, only only version to have) George Smith - Don't find me guilty - Bojo (Sublime 60's crossover soul, oh so rare on this label, only a few copies ever turned up) Limmie - Saturday night's the night - Psyco (Midtempo sweet modern soul, on this rare only UK release) San Remo Golden Strings - Festival time - Ric Tic (All time classic instrumental, here on a supa rare original styrene white demo) Pep Brown - It's all about the money - Walden (Oh so hard to find early 80's soulful modern shuffler) Royal Five - Say it to my face - Tyler (Philly 60's group soul at it's best) Sugar Bear Johnson - When your jones come down - T-Jaye (The mighty Ted Jarrett on production for this indemand funky midtempo modern soul winner) Eddie Carlton - Things are gonna get a little tougher - Bell Sound (Un-released studio disc of the crazy uptempo 60's dancer from the man, packed the floor every time back at The Ritz) Tate - It takes more love - Cloverstreet (One of two stunning soulful group tracks from them, both produced by the great Chester Pipkin) Vicki Williams - Do I make myself clear - Morgan Park (Rare on either label, but this was the first, Oh so soulful midtempo 60's Mississippi dancer) Mamie Lee - I can feel him slipping away - MGM (All time classic, so soulful midtempo 60's winner, here on a nice demo) Green Sisters - Whatevers fair - Mankind (The LP with the stunning uptempo track 'A theme for Sister Green') Gail Anderson - Be proud - Salvador (Midtempo 60's at it's best, and what a great voice) Plus so many more, have a look or browse through the site. Hope you find some things you like. Dave & Malayka

If your selling about £40, trouble is LP's just don't sell at the moment.

I also am ready to stand corrected, I thought I had seen one on a different coloured label, but just pulled mine out and it is also white, so maybe it was my imagination. The label generally had different coloured labels for nearly every release.

If I remember correctly there are several different coloured labels, would have to dig mine out to have a look. I agree with Chalky, about £300, Ernest told me that he wouldn't have pressed many more than 500 copies of this. Which would make it a fairly hard to find record 35+ years later. Dave

Thats the one, any news on when it is gonna be availble Dave

Hi Mossy I noticed on there that someone mention another site. He said that Vince Montana and a bunch of the Philly guys have left Soulfuldetroit for another site, do you know what it's called. Dave

I saw some where on the web that their is a company about to re-launch the 'Soundburger'. Have to see if I can find it. Agree with Vince the Vestax starts to fall apart fairly quickly.

Agree it's a jazz track really, don't see what it has to do with Popcorn either. Mind the guys from Belgium, very odd bunch of dealers over there. I noticed a few of them in the last month on Ebay with 'Buy it now' prices to make your eyes water.

Hi Guys Just seen the sad news on Soul Tracks, that Marvin has passed. See link to Soul Tracks https://www.soultracks.com/story-marvin-isley-dies Dave

Morning all you monday morning peeps, here below is a bunch of LP's, 12" and 45's we posted at the weekend

Does any one have a full bio on the lady, love everything she has done. Dave

That wasn't the only time he did something like that, god bless him and long may he DJ He has a new radio show on Starpoint, worth catching, 'The Master At Work' Dave

It's never been a rarest of the rare track, has always bumped around £100-£150

Hi Guys Below is just a small selection of the 1000's of LP's and 12" we have in stock, many with sound files for highlight tracks. LP's Barrino Brothers - Livin high on the goodness of your love (HDH cool production, nice crossover and ballads) Zulema - Zulema (Includes the indemand 'I wanna be where you are') Willie Mitchell - Driving beat ('Champion pt1&2') JB's - Food for thought (Funk classic ' Pass the peas' etc) Buddy Miles - All faces ('Just a kiss away' but don't stop there many more killer dance tracks) Colorblind - Crazy (Modern soul classic, rare RCA mini LP) Genie Brown - A woman alone (Dee Irwin produced crossover heaven inc 'can't stop') Mary Well - Bye Bye Baby (So hard to find original) O'Jays - Soul sounds (O'Jays original line up with Bobby Massey, 60's dancers heaven) Richard Popcorn Wylie - ESP (One of THE seminal 70's crossover sets, every track is a winner, 'ESP/Lost Time/Georgia after hours' and the Stafford classic 'How did I lose you') Smith Connection - Under my wings (Detroit harmony soul and crossover) Voices Of East Harlem - Voices Of East Harlem ('Cashing in/Just believe in me/Giving love' what a cool, cool set) 12" Brothers Vibe - Can you dig it (Rare garage instrumental, with cool George Bensonesq guitar rift) Frankie Neives - True love (Soulful strutt, given a latin vocal twist) C J Surge - Be my love (One of Detroit rarest 12", 3.20mins of soulful beauty) J's - When did you stop (Philly soulful group dancer, rarer on 12" than 45) Michael Procter - Fall down (Soulful garage evergreen classic) Paradise II - Tonight is the night (Rare Chicago boogie winner) Roger Hatcher - Stormy love affair (Oh so hard to find killer modern soul) Just a few examples of the nice things we have on the site, plus below is some of the new 45's to arrive Roger Hatcher - Sweetest girl in the world (Indemand evergreen midtempo Nashville soulful heaven) Brewster Crew - I'm one that knows (Oh so rare white demo) Dee Edwards - Why can't there be love (In demand tune all over europe, cool Detroit) Marion Javius - Waiting in the wings A must for lovers of funky modern soul) Skip Jackson & The Shantons - I'm on to you girl (Sumblime crossover soul, killer vocals) Charlie 'Chuck' Willis - Here I am again (Oh so rare Detroit beat ballad, long intro but when it hits it's beat, it will take your breath away) Betty Wright - Circle of a heartbreak (Hard to find pre-Atlantic distributed Alston 60's dancer) Almost Blind & Saleem -Heavy Situation (Cool modern soul boogie, much loved by the French) Charles Abdul Khaliq - Cornerboy (Stunning west coast modern soul with soulful sweet vocals, top tune for Soul Sam) Joe Graham - I've been blessed by your love/Something wrong with our love (One of his rarest and what a cool double sider, in your face dancer and a floating midtempo winner) Thanks for looking Malayka and Dave

Nice list young man and good prices:thumbsup:

Hi Guys www.topdogrecords.co.uk 'From the hard to find, to the just plain good' Here some nice tunes for a hot, hot weekend, mix of modern, northern and funk, all with sound files, including Roger Hatcher - Sweetest girl in the world (Indemand evergreen midtempo Nashville soulful heaven) Brewster Crew - I'm one that knows (Oh so rare white demo) Dee Edwards - Why can't there be love (In demand tune all over europe, cool Detroit) Marion Javius - Waiting in the wings A must for lovers of funky modern soul) Skip Jackson & The Shantons - I'm on to you girl (Sumblime crossover soul, killer vocals) Charlie 'Chuck' Willis - Here I am again (Oh so rare Detroit beat ballad, long intro but when it hits it's beat, it will take your breath away) Betty Wright - Circle of a heartbreak (Hard to find pre-Atlantic distributed Alston 60's dancer) Almost Blind & Saleem -Heavy Situation (Cool modern soul boogie, much loved by the French) Charles Abdul Khaliq - Cornerboy (Stunning west coast modern soul with soulful sweet vocals, top tune for Soul Sam) Joe Graham - I've been blessed by your love/Something wrong with our love (One of his rarest and what a cool double sider, in your face dancer and a floating midtempo winner) Plus a whole bunch more on the new arrivals page and over 200 hundred new 45's across the site. Thanks for looking, hope you find something you like. Malayka & Dave

Love to put up a sound file but Refro has been down for over a week now and doesn't look like it will be back any time soon!!!!!!!!!!!!! But if you really want to hear it drop me a line on my email and I'll post you a sound clip

Steve, you go over board, never. But your right it is a stunner, gonna also be playing this everywhere I go, it's that good , get your orders in now, cuz as with Bill Spoon, once their gone, their gone. Dave

One of the leading lights in the Washington Go Go scene passes away. Little Benny will be known to many over here for his Go Go standard 'Who comes to boogie' Chuck Brown and other comment see link https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2010/05/31/r-i-p-go-go-pioneer-little-benny-chuck-brown-others-reminisce/ Dave

Yes and no, that was a price that seemed fair to me and one I was happy with. I'm more interested in having sales daily, rather than ringing every last penny out of things. Thats why I also don't auction much stuff, get them sold and go off to the states and find more stuff.

Just looked back at my database, sold one last year for £600, do remember that it sold within a few hours of being listed and took another six calls on it that same day.

and Neil memtioned one earlier in this thread Johnny Sayles - I can't get enough

Some of my earliest memories at soul events are of Max at the turntables along with his old mate Kojak. Back then as a young buck it seemed what ever the record you asked for they would be able to pull it out of their record boxes, happy days.